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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban confirmed the death of longtime leader...group's 14-year insurgency.The Afghan Taliban Shura, or Supreme Council, chose...Akhtar Mansoor, as its new leader, two Taliban figures said.Mansoor is considered...

...Afghanistan asserted Wednesday that the Taliban's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammad...said they considered the report of the Taliban leader's death credible, though it was not confirmed by the Taliban or Pakistan.The Afghan government's...

...government is examining claims that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is dead. The Taliban could not be immediately reached on the government's...the one-eyed, secretive head of the Taliban and an al-Qaida ally, led a bloody insurgency...

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan Taliban have released a statement purportedly...Kabul government the day before. Senior Taliban figures have also told the AP that Mullah...mistakes Mullah Omar made as leader of the Taliban.The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996...

...the militants and an activist group said.? KABUL, Afghanistan - The first signs of the deep fractures within the Afghan Taliban surfaced on Friday as the son of Mullah Mohammad Omar rejected the choice of his successor, just hours after the group issued...

...Ishaq, who directed the operations of the Taliban- and al-Qaida-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...allied itself with al-Qaida and the Taliban. His group is blamed for scores of attacks...militant groups since December, when a Taliban attack on a military school in the northwestern...

...shooting of a black motorist is applauded by officials.5. WHO IS 'NOT AWARE' OF PEACE TALKSThe statement by the Afghan Taliban, who have been fighting to topple the Kabul government for almost 14 years, may indicate the group is pulling out of negotiations...

...should be no surprise then that young children play "police and Taliban," chasing each other around with toy guns and weaponry designed...the resulting insurgency to the civil war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s. The U.S.-led invasion in 2001 after the...

...girls and women during the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan, specifically during the...for her granddaughter even though the Taliban forbids education of girls. As the grandmother...for the closing words, which say the Taliban can never close the windows that have...

...America" and "Death to Israel"! These are not idle threats.Not long ago Obama enthusiastically traded the five worst Taliban Terrorist leaders held at GTMO for one military deserter. Now it is speculated Obama will soon try to give GTMO to the Castro...